Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18
State 11eps.

snow on a level in the woods.
Editor Stone of the st. Johnsburv CAL
edonian has gone with his son on a pleas
ure trip to California.
Gen. Henry l.. Burnett of New York
has accepted the invitation to deliver the
Memorial day address at Rutland.
The number of liquor dealers paving
"A United States tax in Vermont has in
creased from 494 in 1885 to 573 in 1886.
st. Adams, st. Johnsbury and Bellows
Falls have appropriated 500 each for
Memorial day. Montpelier appropriated
$50.
Three hundred shares of the capital
stock of the Rutland national bank, par
value $50, were sold by auction the other
day at $40 share.
y statue of Father BOylan of Rutland.
seven feet high and standing on a l2-foot
pedestal. will probably be placed over his
grave. Charles Jarrett is the sculptor.
George Hall, employed in the paper
mil at West Derby. was caught BY
betting saturday. and instantly killed.
lie leaves widow and three children.
a small son of p. Holmes of Fairbanks
Village est. Johnsbury) while at play
Sunday fell into II bath pan of hot water
and was burned so badly that it died that
night.
The commissioned officers of the Yer
mont National guard gathered at Brattle-
boro, last week, for their annual two-days'
drill. Gov. Ormsbee ana Lieut. Gov.
Fuller were present.
The St. Johnsbury and Lake Cham
plain railroad company have again as
sumed operation of the road. having re-
ceived control of it from the Boston and
Lowell corporation.
The ice companies at Burlington have
finished cutting and harvesting. They
have had to 90 further out into the lake
than usual to get the ice. but it is said
the rates will not be changed.
&. W. Beckwith, the newly appointed
postmaster at Burlington. has appointed
W. +. Morse "a his assistant. The DEM
ocratic officials were given possession of
the office at the close Of business on Sat
urday evening.
Woodstock and surrounding towns
now have five feet of snow on "A level.
Nothing like it has been known since
March and April, 1868. when there were
six feet on Il level. Woodmen cannot
pursue their calling.
Mrs. Charles p Harris, who was niur-
ed at the Rutland toboggan slide three
weeks ago, though improving, is not vet
out of danger. Her wound is healthy
and slowly healing. but she cannot vet
turn herself in bed.
The Barre Congregational society has
voted to assess Il tax upon the pews suf-
hclent to raise $4,000 to complete repairs
on the church edifce. The parsonage
and portion of its grounds will be sold
if $1,000 can be realized for the property.
The people of Somerset, a little place
of 81 inhabitants, connected with the
outer world by semi-weekly stages, say
that they have never seen such an
amount of snow in their town as now.
1t measures IS inches on level and the
ponds and streams are frozen to their
bottoms.
Antoine Sharkey, Frenchman, was
instantly killed while at work on the
Burden job on the Green mountain in the
east part of Salisbury. He was walk
ing in front of an OK team and slipped
and fell, the oxen and heavy load of
logs passing over his body, breaking his
neck and back. A small boy, his son.
was the only one with him.
Coasters at Richford were surprised
the other night by the sudden disappear
ance of one of their number. 1t turned
out that he had broken through the thick
crust of snow which concealed the mouth
of an old we'll and was at the bottom
about 30 feet down, and in response to
calls from his companions said he was
not hurt much and begged to be taken
out.
The total gross earnings of the Yer
mont railroads for 1856 were more than
S4,OOO,OOO. Il larger amount than during
t any previous year since the corporation
tax law took effect. The earnings last
year were 5000 over their gross re-
ceipts in 1850. The railroads pay nearly
half of the corporation tax. the amount
paid last year being Sl0l, l5G, against
SS1 ,446 in 1883. The gross earnings of
the Central Vermont on their 1876 miles
of road in the State were S2,2S5,779 in
. 1856, an increase of S250.000 over 1885.
The Clarendon and Pittsford railroad
built by Gov. Proctor to develop his
I marble property was opened for business
last June, and its manager reports earn
a ings of $500 for the first six months.
The supreme court at Ottawa Ont. has
heard and reserved judgment upon the
appeal case of the Connecticut and Pas
= sumpsic railroad against Morris. The
5 appeal is from the unanimous Judgment
4 of the court of queens bench, reversing
: the Judgment of Justice johnson of the
= superior court in favor of the appellant
e company. The appellant moved to de-
clare null and void the sale of certain
y shares of the capital stock of the Mon real,
, Boston and Portland railway company
r which were sold at a judicial sale of Mr..
c O'IIalloran against Bradley Barlow; the
ground taken is that Barlow was insol-
vent at the time and owed the company
f over 100000, that the shares were sold
for less than their value, that more shares
, We're sold than was necessary to pay off
. O'lIallOran's Judgment, and that the pro-
D ceedings were otherwise illegal.
Another sweeping enforcement of the
prohibitory law was made at Montpelier
D on Friday afternoon, three drug stores
being raided on search ard seizure war
rants. At the store of Ira c. Bascom